From: RHS Linux User Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Q:Debbuger. Date: 13 Jan 1997 23:24:01 -0600 Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Lines: 74 Sender: tarquin AT localhost Message-ID: References: <32CDA319 DOT 756 AT cam DOT org> <32CDC96C DOT 61C AT cs DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnet05-27.austin.texas.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp "John M. Aldrich" writes: > Try gdb, the GNU debugger. It's available from SimTel as > v2gnu/gdb416b.zip. Or use the new RHIDE IDE, which has gdb as an > integrated debugger. he forgot the portability of DJGPP. GDB can debug a running Linux kernel :) > DJGPP comes with a free DPMI host that is only 20k long. Borland > (AFAIK) uses DOS4GW, which is 250k. nah, I think Borland uses that RTM/DPMILOAD stuff. DOS4/GW is Watcom > ones who provide the support. Borland has voice mail and "trained > customer service representatives." ugh. fools who think the web is a nifty new thing thought up by the Clinton administration > id Software wrote Quake in DJGPP. Need we say more? Abrash mentioned a little pain about memset in his book. apparently his version compiled as a byte move :) > Advantages of Borland: > > Borland is Windows native. This is a big minus for DJGPP, but it is > getting much closer. RSXNTDJ is an excellent package, but difficult to > find resources for because Microsoft doesn't want free software butting > in on their market. the environment shouldn't make a difference in the executable format, or what you can develop in. though one thing you almost definately need (especially for X) is some form of framework or widget set. > development and looking cooler every day. It also has GNU Emacs, which > is as powerful as any IDE in existence. Advantage Borland? Maybe, but > it's a lot closer than it may seem. Emacs as powerful as an ide? You must have gotten an old version :) XEmacs (Linux) has it's own graphical web browser, and is what I'm using for my usenet reader :) > Borland has more books written in support of it. Well, true, but the > DJGPP Book Project is coming along... Besides, most of those books are > crap. not to mention the pains of converting borland->microsoft. DJGPP's big porblem, the AT&T asm is close to being fixed, if it isn't already > But back to DJGPP: > > Borland gets more bug reports in a week than DJGPP has gotten in its > entire lifetime. True, much of this may be about its IDE, but doesn't > this still indicate something significant? free software always tends to be of higher quality. I had some idiots pick up my modem line several times and dial, and I never got disconnected (Linux rules :) > Hope this helps! > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | > | God's final message to His Creation: | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | > | "We apologize for the inconvenience."| Fight against proprietary | > | - Douglas Adams | software - support the FSF!| > --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Allensworth --- tarquin AT texas DOT net --- ReaperMan on the QuakeServers Author of XtraWeapons (except the homing missile, eject, and throwing axe) Industrial Strength Gaming http://www.uk.digiserve.com/whiteoak/punktc/ Skrew Actura! Dem bastards stole my Bouncing Bettys! (incl. in XW19)